One question that comes up around license management for Office 365 is that it is tricky to disable licenses for many users if you don’t know which other licenses they already have active or disabled. This can get particular tricky when some licenses are mutually exclusive, and here the ones that come to mind for […]
*** Update 6/24 – we have this fixed now – so you shouldn’t need to follow the workaround. When you go to the Plan Board it will trigger provisioning – so you may see the message below one last time – but in my tests the sites and notebooks for my plans are now looking […]
Thought it worth a post to say how I plan to use the two blogs I have going forward. I just posted the June Updates PU on the Project Support blog over at Project Server 2010, 2013 and 2016 June 2016 PU – and earlier in the day posted about an upgrade issue from 2010 […]
Thanks to Diana Balan for all her work on this case of a failure in the PowerShell upgrade scripts when migrating from Project Server 2010 to Project Server 2013. We do have a fix request in to overcome this issue (I’ll try to remember to update when it is released!) – and there is a […]
Skipping back to Project Online for a brief interlude – I was working on a case where the requirement was to create summary tasks and sub task relationships in a plan using the REST API. I started with the samples out on GitHub – and used the .NET samples first just to get my head […]
I’ve had this question from folks who were signed up for First Release of Office 365 Planner Preview with a promo code, ,and they want to understand the migration path once the preview ends. The general answer is there is nothing you need to do – all your plans and tasks will still be there […]
***Update 4/7/2017 – for the new AzureAD v2 Preview commands to achieve this – see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/04/07/planner-group-control-new-powershell-commands/ *** *** Update 10/7/2016 – I found out today that Set-MsolCompanySettings also controls group creation and will block for all but Admins – if UsersPermissionsToCreateGroupsEnabled is set to false – (Set-MsolCompanySettings -UsersPermissionToCreateGroupsEnabled $false). The value can be queried using Get-MsolCompanyInformation. […]
***Update 4/7/2017 – for the new AzureAD v2 Preview commands to achieve this – see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/04/07/planner-group-control-new-powershell-commands/ *** Today sees the start of General Availability of Microsoft Planner, known during the First Release preview as Office 365 Planner. It may take a few weeks until it is fully rolled out so please be patient if you […]
Cliff House at Pikes Peak Before I forget where we went and what we did I’ll record our 2016 road trip here – with a small selection of photos. Most were taken with Fujifilm X-T1, and I took with me just 3 prime lenses; The Zeiss 12mm f/2.8, the Fujifilm 35mm F/2 and the Fujifilm […]
